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...have suspected many a time," he continued, "that the meaning is something added to the verse." The words have a beauty beyond meaning; we feel the beauty before we think the meaning. "Therefore, we do not have to commit ourselves to a meaning. . . . The idea of words being an algebra comes from dictionaries. I don't want to be unfair to dictionaries . . . but we think that explanations exhaust the words...
...consumer's guide to household equipment, and "Piggy Bank," budget-centered instruction in personal finance. At Cornell, publicity in the Daily Sun ruined a freshman geology course known as "Rocks for Jocks," which is now unusually tough; but Mathematician Leonard Silver, who marks exams in a linear algebra course vaguely as either "swell" or "lousy," still gives nothing but A's. "I'm trying to help the student avoid ulcers," he explains...
...intensive and instant communications, cryptography has acquired supreme importance in guessing and occasionally ascertaining the next step of friend and foe alike. Within the bowels of NSA, constant research is conducted into new theories and systems of communications and codes. Mathematicians probe the domains of statistics and higher algebra to solve or protect complex ciphers, while other experts focus on such esoteric topics as the effect of electromagnetic radiation on radio and satellite transmissions. To aid in this task, NSA harbors in its massive, concrete-walled basements what is probably the most sophisticated and largest concentration of computers...
...mere destroyers, the fighters under the banners of Islam set up garrisons and developed a high culture. The world owes to them algebra, trigonometry, many chemical compounds, pioneering work in astronomy, medicine and horticulture. Yet missing in Arab science was any true sense of creativity; despite its technical inventions, it regarded knowledge more as a matter of gathering the known than exploring the unknown...
...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...